Enter the magical world
of "WINNIE THE WITCH" with this enchanting adaptation of the
award-winning children's book. Winnie lived in a black house, with black
carpets, black walls, black sheets on the bed, and even a black bath. Wilbur
the cat was also black and that was when the trouble began...

Choose from one of three
options to explore and enjoy this spellbinding story: follow Winnie's hilarious
antics in an animated movie; see the story page by page and hear it being read
aloud; or select one of Winnie's rooms and you can cast spells, change colours
and shapes, or click on objects for amazing and sometimes disastrous efects.
Whichever option you choose, you can be sure that the results are spectacular.
Full of surprises and visual trickery, "WINNIE THE WITCH" is a magical
tour-de-force.

Winnie keeps losing her
cat. He's so black that wherever he goes in Winnie's black house, he gets lost.
The solution, of course, is to change the cats colour, but this leads to
all sorts of misadventures for the poor moggy. All of which is as good an
excuse as any for a children's story and lots of children's games.

On this excellent
children's CD, youll find the whole story of "WINNIE THE WITCH",
read by Sandy Toksvig.

While Winnie may not
benefit from the sort of marketing power that accompanies every new Disney
character, she's more than capable of holding her own when it comes to
interactivity on multimedia.

You'll also find loads
of really fun games to amuse the youngest generation. Amongst the diverting
activities are painting games, memory games and simple exploration games.

To access each of the
games, you simply click on one of the rooms in Winnie's rather grand house. The
bathroom's where you can experiment with the items, the bedroom's where you can
try a bit of magical painting and the hall is where you can play a memory game.
It's a well designed, highly amusing and thoughtfully illustrated CD that should
keep even the most demanding child happy for hours on end.

JUDGEMENT

"WINNIE THE
WITCH" comes with the tiny paperback which won the Childrens Book
Award. Many children will be enthralled to see Winnie and her black cat, Wilbur
- who is, unfortunately, rather difficult to spot in her black house - come to
life. The adults found the idea wonderful, the rooms beautifully drawn, the
jokes delightful, but they felt it didn't do enough.

The story, read by Sandi
Toksvig, lasts just over five minutes, The main screen shows Winnie's black
house, and you can visit each room to play a game - from the kitchen, where the
right set of ingredients hurled into the cooking pot turn a frog into a prince,
to the attic with sunlight outside one window, sickle moon and dark garden on
the other side.

Most of the objects
move, but not much. There's a colour changing game in Winnies
surprisingly dainty bedroom, but the best game is in the sitting room, where you
have to beat the clock to find hidden objects. In all rooms mops are liable to
burst into flames, and must be doused with fire buckets.

"WINNIE THE
WITCH" is delightful and witty, and my 22 month-old-son Samuel loved
it, while we blase adults wished there was more to it. On the other hand, the
even more blase Katie and Tim absolutely adored this one. They gave it ten out
of ten, submitted pages of written reviews, and said they would be prepared to
buy it themselves out of their own pocket money - praise from those of limited
pocket money comes no higher.